This tune is in Angus MacKay's book, Angus MacArthur's and Donald MacDonald's manuscripts. According to Angus MacKay Hector MacLean was, like his father a noted marauder. He was suspected of having designs on the young Laird, Lachlan Mor, and this led to a long imprisonment in Duart Castle ending with his execution, being beheaded in Coll without a trial in 1759. Perhaps it is a warning to others not to be like him. From Binneas is Boeraig.

Tunes Index - A-F

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